Quotes About China Mieville

Jeff VanderMeer's fiction has always been entrancingly, engagingly, enthusiastically weird, a winning combination of mimesis and the fantastical that privileges neither component: perhaps the very definition of that mode categorized as the 'New Weird' and exemplified most famously by the groundbreaking work of China Mieville.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

I'm a wishy-washy 'Guardian' reader, but the last thing I want to do is force a political agenda down people's throats. It's not central to my work, unlike, say, China Mieville, who's very politicised.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Do please," said Captain Naphi, "expedite this journey relevance-ward.

Were you terrified, Murgatroyd?" Murgatroyd nodded eagerly. "There you go, girl: You're a terrorist. You make me twitchy, and under Article Forty-One of the 2000 Terrorism Bill, that's all I need. Time for some reasonable force, I think.

This is a Possible Letter. Until the last second, when I write your name beside that word "Dear," all those sheets and months ago, this is a Possible Letter, pregnant with potentiality. I am very powerful right now. I am all ready to mine the possibilities, make one of them fact.

I don't generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers' responses to critics seem to me at best undignified.

I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

They hammered it with sometimes-guns, that violently assert the manchmal, this stuff, our everyday, against the always of the immer.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

Chaverim," he said to them. A category stolen from an old language. "Chaver," they said back—comrade, equal, conspirator.

As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.

This is called data mining." She said the last words in English. "Which of us is the canary?

and then the other op-er-at-or told the formal in-stee-gay-tor that his suit could not be heard the very thought was quite absurd . . .

It's not an intellectual mistake.

Hello slash query is all well? parenthesis enquiry after suitability of timing slash insinuations of warmness sixty percent insinuations of belief that interlocutor has topic to be discussed forty percent blah blah." I raised an eyebrow. "It was pointless.

Our next move', he said, 'will be to transfer the whole power into the hands of the Soviets.' The formula could

almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.

My task is changed: not to uphold the law, or another law, but to maintain the skin that keeps law in place. Two laws in two places, in fact.

He was cheered by this. He was a scientist, not a mystic.

The Weaver is a really godlike power. It's not even a blind idiot god, a sort of Lovecraft thing, it's just a purely capricious god. It's an intelligence you can't understand, so you can't trust it." -Amazon.com interview

You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.